HIST 106 1nd Edition Lecture 18 Outline of Last Lecture I WWII Continued Outline of Current Lecture I Ending of WWII Current Lecture Exam 2 announcements Will cover from the end of WWI Versailles Agreement through the 1920 s Great Depression beginning of WWII through 1948 1920 s o more from the textbook than lecture Stock Market Crash o Herbert Hoover Franklin Roosevelt how they handled it o Franklin Roosevelt s organizations Effort to jump start the economy Franklin Roosevelt s mistakes very few Several questions about Hitler o He was born in Austria not Germany The American public had other options other than FDR o What were they Overseas o Spanish Civil War o Creations of alliances Italians Japanese Germans o Major battles of WWII o Turning points of WWII The 90 days major battles were fought o Who does the US take on first Germans or Japanese o Beginning of the Cold War Will rise and fall through 1940 1970 s Ending of WWII These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Germans are defeated May 8th 1945 V E Day Agreement made at Yalta 90 days after V E Day Russians will attack Japanese on US behalf They won t need to do that b c US has the Atomic bomb President Truman had to decide whether or not do drop it 1st and 2nd bomb are dropped and Japanese surrender US dropped the second bomb to impress the Russians War is over By September US is already conflicting with Russia o Joe Stalin issues speech Return to Orthodox o He says that now that Germans are taken care of return to orthodox o Stalin appoints a new man to western desk 1946 o Scandal in Canada Igen Guzienco writes a book about Russians spying in Canada and are up to no good and should be feared No one believes him but he is telling the truth US thinks that Russians may be doing the same to US o Beginning of Civil war in Turkey and Greece Communist vs Non communists Communist saw the opportunity to take power after the war 1947 o Foreign Affairs an article written by X who was George Kennan Wrote that the Soviet government is like a child s toy it keeps going until it is contained to distract the public from all the shortages o Policy of Containment US wants to contain the Russians o NATO Us stops the Russians from expanding o SEATO to stop Russians from expanding to the Southeast Asian direction o SENTAR US stops the Russians o Harry Truman issues Truman Doctrine if anybody fears Russians communists are taking over all they have to do is evoke the Truman doctrine and we will send aid and troops o In the Us Issuing Security Clearances if you belong or gave money to an organization that is on Security Clearance list you better explain b c you are excused of communists action Applied fist to gov officials then teachers then military o Russians respond to NATO by creating the Warsaw Pact If anyone in Europe fears the west they evoke the Warsaw Pact o The World is divided o US is having a National Tribe Whittaker Chamber is tried and cuts deal with Gov if they let him off the hook he will tell who else is a communists Tells them Alger Hiss was a communist Alger Hiss is found guilty of perjury not b c of being a communists Richard Nixon governments lawyer o 1948 o o o o House Un American Activities Committee congressional committee that looks for unAmerican activities People write to committee accusing people Process of naming names Committee checking Hollywood education Russians cut corridors to West Berlin Berlin Airlif every 30 seconds planes are sent After a year Russians decided to reopen US passes the Marshall Plan US pours money to the Europeans ends the Morgenthau Plan They also had to spend money in US helps US economy Morgenthau Plan is what US went into Germany at the end of the war with Says US is going to turn Germany into a pasture strip them of their industry US decides this is not good b c it makes them susceptible to Russia